Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

By what means was the mill destroyed in the final account?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, be, destroy · To what, where: mill, final account

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mill	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mill	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mill	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 account	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 account	det
10	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 account	amod
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 destroyed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the mill		tree rules
3	destroy	participle	the mill not said here	the final account	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

By the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 wind	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By a conflagration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 conflagration	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 conflagration	det
3	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

By storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 storm	case
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

By a flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 flood	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flood	det
3	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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